Ingeri Arts Organization

 Ingeri Arts was founded by Drama artists in 2013 to enhance and promote artistic education, participate in the development, enhance cultural values and contribute to the well-being of the community, designed for arts to arts inspirations as well as arts for education, development and social well-being.

                                           1.      Mission statement and vision

Mission: Participate in the development, the well-being of the population and promoting education for cultural values through performing arts. In other words, our core target is to participate in the development, education, the well-being of the community and enhancing cultural values through performing arts.  INGERI ARTS aims at empowering, educating, inspiring, engaging communities, promote the arts and art appreciation, and sustaining culture through performing arts.

In addition to the mission, INGERI ARTS has established the following guiding principles whereby programs will reflect on:

•      High professional standards;

•      High regard for cultural diversity;

•      Equitable and fair management of artists.

Vision: a healthy and wealthy community where cultural values and humanity are respected.

2.      CORE VALUES

v  Mutual respect

v  Commitment

v  Divine principles prioritization

3.      Objectives

•       Gender balance sensitization for the family development

•      To promote education for Rwandan cultural values

•      To promote artistic education

•      Youth development and job creation

•      To promote artistic education in schools and in the community.

•      To promote children rights

•      To fight against HIV/AIDS and other epidemics

•      To promote the culture of peace.

•      To fight against corruption and its tentative ways.

•      Sustainability of Rwandan culture

•      Reinforce and promote unity and reconciliation

•      Human rights sensitization

•      Nurturing creative language and reading skills by encouraging children and young people to find in performing arts a source of pleasure and a means of self-expression, developing their awareness of language and confidence in using it.

•      Fight against drug abuse and juvenile delinquency in youth and children

4.      PROGRAMS

                                      DRAMATHERAPY

This is a program through which INGERI ARTS uses participatory theatre and debate approaches for participants to tell their own stories and solve their own problems with the active non-violence problem solving techniques to Promote positive behavioral changes, Improve interpersonal relationship skills, Integrate physical and emotional well-being, Achieve personal growth and self-awareness, Improve overall quality of life,… Areas of focus: hospitals, mental health centers, schools and rehabilitation centers,...

                             TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS

Through this program, INGERI ARTS organizes learning sessions that provide different skills in performing arts to artists, arts teachers, prospective artists and others. The organization organizes lectures, debates and different trainings for youth and children to acquire life skills and explore/discover their talents as well as inspiring/motivate new ones in arts as an effective tool for a better social well-being.

                          ARTISTIC EDUCATION

 They provide multiple opportunities for schools to view each other’s dramatic works. Their aims are to sharpen and develop students’ skills in oral language and all expressive mechanisms, developing the intellectual skills and we strongly encourage group-level cooperation, arts integrated learning, acculturation, school community relations and develop recreational outlets for the future. They thus provide a significant training ground for students and teachers in dramatic arts. Their work strongly intends at promoting at arts integration in an educational setting by encouraging performance based learning.

                          COMMUNITY OUTREACH

This is a program whereby INGERI ARTS reaches its targeted populace (community) to empower communities listening to their concerns and encouraging them to voice and solve their own problem accordingly. We sensitize communities to government programs and share life experiences with them through community theatre, theatre for development and other various entertainments creating a good societal environment with effective social communication. Community outreach also emphasizes on the development procedures that may take the people out of poverty towards a sustainable well-being especially children and youth by doing what they like doing and creating different income generating activities to improve lives. Our focus is: arts and crafts, music and Theatre. This is a program through which we create societal profitable initiatives (SPI) as well as contributing to the well-being and development of the population.

                                       ZEIGEN

This is an arts for arts program. This program covers performing in front of a no-specific audience like organizing live performances, tours, competitions…through all the mediums. INGERI ARTS may run a show on invite from other parties, self-exhibitions, festivals,… or it may be a showcasing new talents event organized through all the mediums ( Theatre, music, dance, poetry, arts,…).  Ingeri Arts is a renowned organization that uses Theatre of the oppressed (Intote), Invisible Theatre (Uruyobere), Theatre for development, ...in Rwanda.

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Amasaro Yaka Cultural Troupe

 Amasaro yaka is a cultural dance troupe that was established by Ingeri Arts Organization in 2016 through its Zeigen program as one of the ways to expand and propagate the rich Rwandan culture to the next generation and entertain all Rwandans with the traditional music and dance. 

Ingeri Arts is a non-governmental organization that was founded by Drama artists with a mission to participate in the development, the well-being of the population and promoting education for cultural values through performing arts. Ingeri Arts aims at empowering, educating, inspiring, engaging communities, promoting the arts and art appreciation, and sustaining culture through performing arts.

Amasaro yaka (Glittering Pearls) performs in different venues with a variety of cultural dances on a corporate call, festivals or/and events organized by Ingeri Arts.

For bookings, please send your enquiry to amasaroyaka@gmail.com  or call +250783040964

 

              Amasaro yaka performing in the National heroes day 2017 in Musanze

 

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Performing Arts Agencies in Rwanda

In this article, we will provide a growing list of performing arts companies/organizations working in Rwanda. If yours or the one you know is not listed, please send the details (company name, URL, a short description and logo) to lakhpin919@gmail.com  We will review it and add to the list:

1. Mashirika Performing Arts is a performing group and a pioneering professional company in Rwanda that was started by students of music, dance and drama at Makerere University Kampala in July 1997, with Hope Azeda as a leading founder member, who later moved to Rwanda in 1998. 
2. Ishyo Arts Centre is a platform for artists, art lovers, cultural professionals, entrepreneurs and anyone who is passionate about art. This successful non-governmental organization operates locally and internationally and brings cultural practitioners together to make traditional and contemporary culture available to all. Ishyo also develops and supports innovative artists, projects and training programs mainly in literature, dance, music, poetry and theatre.
3. Rwanda Arts Initiative is a Platform gathering Rwandan artists and aiming at professionalization of art industry.
4. Amizero Kompagnie a Rwandan dance, theatre and performance company based in Kigali, Rwanda. Amizero originated at the University Centre for Arts and Drama at the University of Rwanda, Butare in 2005 as Rwanda’s first professional contemporary dance company.
5. Rwanda Professional Dreamers (RPD) is a space created to initiate, promote and support innovative, challenging and creative artistic work in Rwanda.
6.  Niyo Cultural Centre teaches traditional Rwandan drumming and dance to impoverished children. They give them the confidence and inspiration to use their skills to earn money for their own education, medical expenses and day-to-day living.
7. Kaami Arts Organization was founded in January 2013, by artists spanned in different fields in Music, Dance, Theater, Painting, cinema and photography, who joined hands to enlighten the skills, the knowledge and the love of art to the people while using it as a channel for social change.
8. Ingeri Arts is an organization founded by Jean-Paul Ingabire and Emmanuel Muhire in 2013 to enhance and promote artistic education, cultural values and the well-being of the community through performing arts, mainly working with children and young audiences.  
9. Leaf International-Rwanda founded in 2006 located in Kigali (also known as Intore Cultural Troupe)
10. Kwanda Art Foundation seeks to establish a solid knowledge-base for all members and interested artists in the field of visual multi-media and performance art. 
11. Lakhtrem founded in 2014, is a creative agency that works at the intersection of creative arts and digital marketing approaches recognizing the value of the arts and makers. 

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Active Speaking - Mwalimu LAKHPIN

Active speaking is the release of inner motives, suggestions and perceptions with an effective use of gestures, mime, signs, pantomimes and voice conveying a chosen message live to a listener (audience). This communication does not always have to be live or face to face, but it can be through other kinds of media. When someone is speaking on the telephone; the way he/she uses his voice to convey the message(voice moderation), how he/she responds with clear explanations, how effective he/she understands the points, confidence and readiness to communicate…show how he/she is actively speaking. Active speaking is taking out the whole of you. 

This may seem complicated to understand, but remember when you are listening to a speech and the speaker says sentences like: “what can I say!” or you can’t see his/her face because he/she has made the whole concentration on reading; this is not an active speaker and it doesn't demonstrate that he/she is confident about the topic. Mixing many languages everywhere which is a mistake made so often by young people (adolescents and street kids) is not an active speaking skill though it is a self-defense way of communication for non-native speakers. 

Active speaking is not about pace, eloquence, fluency, utterance or grammar, ... It's all about how quick you hear, listen and respond relevantly. And that is not limited through voice mechanisms but also through written communications. There are those who speak by the word of mouth, signs or written/drawn materials, … 

Qualities Of An Active Speaker:

• Know his/her identity (who he/she is in front of the audience)
• Understand and know what is to be said
• Master and analyze what he/she got to say
• Know who to address to
• Plan how to deliver or say their arguments
• Expect the listener's reactions and interpretations about the argument
• Be self-motivated and determined
• Not be an oppressor or offender
• Listen attentively, carefully, and decisively to understand the point
• Be persuasive and dramatically oriented
• Be a good tremmer (i.e to be themselves without imitation of anyone's character).

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